In the summer of 2015, Mercy Hospital in Portland, Maine closed its substance abuse recovery center in Westbrook, in part because of low reimbursement rates for addiction services. Shortly after that, the Sanford Addiction Treatment Clinic in Maine announced that they were closing for similar reasons. With a growing opiate addiction in Maine, and around

In our experience providing medical billing services for behavioral health organizations, we’ve gained significant awareness of the daily struggles faced by internal medical billing and coding personnel. One of the biggest billing hurdles we’ve seen is the ability of our clients to collect payment for laboratory testing services. (The toxicology laboratories industry has seen their